Scythian Poison Scythicon: Deadly arrows

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Scythian Poison Arrows The Scythians were famous for their deadly composite bows. They smeared their arrowheads with poison to make each of their successful shots...

Scythian Cannabis in Ancient Ukraine: Herodotus discovers hemp for Greeks

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Man’s Great Benefactor “Throughout the ages, Cannabis has been extolled as one of man’s greatest benefactors and cursed as one of his greatest scourges. Cannabis...

Khokhols: Ilya Repin’s Ukrainian Cossacks

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Repin & Cossacks’ Reply World-famous painter Ilya Repin devoted 10 years to creating his painting The Reply of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan....

Khokhol Hairstyle: Millennium-Old Mark of Nobility of Kyiv Rus Rulers

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Leo the Deacon Byzantine court historian Leo the Deacon met Kyiv ruler Sviatoslav the Brave in person in 971 AD. Leo’s description of the famous...

Older than Stonehenge and Pyramids: Megalithic Cromlech Kurgan in Ukraine

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Excavations In early 2021, archaeologists began excavating a huge mound south of Dnipro in central Ukraine; it was 7.5 meters high and 50 meters in...

Homer’s Iliad & Ancient Ukraine: Achilles’ Burial of his friend Patroclus

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Patroclus Burial In Chapter 23 of the Iliad, Homer describes the epic scenes of Patroclus’ burial, which Achilles organized for his friend. The funeral ritual included...

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Igor Sikorsky: ‘My family is of Ukrainian origin’. Official document

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When one opens Igor Sikorsky's Wikipedia page, in the "Early Life" paragraph one can read the following sentence: "When questioned regarding his roots, he would...

The Rus are Slavs, wrote Ibn Khordadbeh before 860 AD. What...

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“The Rus, who belong to the Slavic race, go from the most remote regions of the country of the Slavs, on the coasts of...

Baturyn Massacre in 1708: History of Muscovites mass-murdering Ukrainian population

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Sack of Baturyn was a seizure of Baturyn fortress during the Great Northern War (1700–1721), by Russian troops under the command of Alexander Menshikov. They captured and...

13-year-old Ukrainian Oleksiy Sereda became the youngest European champion in the...

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Ditches around Scythian Kurgans

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Famous Ukrainian archaeologist Boris Mozolevsky who excavated Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan and found the famous Golden Pectoral in it held the view that the ditches...

Ukraine-engineered most powerful ballistic missile SS-18 was used as Dnieper Rocket...

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R-36 is the world's largest and most dangerous Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) ever built. And it is solely Ukraine's know-how. Highly accurate guided missiles...

Herodotus Measures Taurica/Crimea: Comparison with Italian Iapygia

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“We have more compelling evidence of Herodotus's advance east of Pontic Olbia. Herodotus begins his account of Scythia's geography from the northwestern coast of...

World’s Strongest Plane – Ukrainian AN-124 Ruslan | Mega Machines

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"The world's largest production cargo plane must carry a record-breaking load in a race against the clock. The Antonov 124 is an air...

The Rus on al-Kashgari Map of 1074

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According to Wikipedia, "Mahmud al-Kashgari was an 11th-century Kara-Khanid scholar and lexicographer of the Turkic languages from Kashgar. His father, Husayn, was the mayor of Barsgan, a town in the southeastern part...

Trypillia Megasites: The first cities of humanity were not in Mesopotamia,...

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6,000 years ago, people in the Eastern European forest-steppe built planned settlements with houses in concentric rings. Archaeologists argue about whether an egalitarian social...

Igor Sikorsky’s First Trial Helicopter Assembled in Kyiv in 1909

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"As time went on, I became well acquainted with the various aeronautical engines, having spent much time in a few factories, and finally made...

Olga of Kyiv, Sviatoslav the Brave, Vladimir the Great, Yaroslav the...

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Professor of History  Dr. C. Raffensperger in Introduction to his recently published book 'Kingdom of Rus': "Examining a wide range of medieval sources, the...